jonathanmarcus

Staked | Boston or New York | Full Time + Onsite

Staked operates highly available and highly secure, institutional grade staking infrastructure for leading proof-of-stake (PoS) protocols. Our infrastructure is deployed in a multi-tier signing and listening cloud configuration using Kubernetes that combines geographic diversity and redundancy across on premise data centers and cloud providers. We are well funded by leading cryptocurrency funds, and have significant customer traction and early momentum.

Open Positions: Full-Stack Web Developer, Security Engineer, Smart Contracts Engineer and Blockchain Engineer

To apply, please visit https://staked.us/jobs/ or email jonathan at staked dot us directly.

Staked | Boston or New York | Full Time + Onsite

Staked operates highly available and highly secure, institutional grade staking infrastructure for leading proof-of-stake (PoS) protocols. Our infrastructure is deployed in a multi-tier signing and listening cloud configuration using Kubernetes that combines geographic diversity and redundancy across on premise data centers and cloud providers. We are well funded by leading cryptocurrency funds, and have significant customer traction and early momentum.

Open Positions: Full-Stack Web Developer, Security Engineer, Smart Contracts Engineer and Blockchain Engineer

To apply, please visit https://staked.us/jobs/ or email jonathan at staked dot us directly.

"Generic fonts"

The web had ~ 5 system fonts before Web Fonts were available in 2008 / 2009.

Now the web has many thousands of the best fonts ever created by the world's best foundries.

My apologies.

https://cosmos.network/ The Internet of Blockchains called; they'd like their name back.

"The chart below shows that, of the top cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, some - like EOS, Cardano, Monero, and Bitcoin - have had a lot more commits than others - like Populous or Bitconnect". Since Bitconnect is a now defunkt ponzi scheme and not a cryptocurrency, their lack of Github activity makes sense :) This analysis would be more helpful if the author properly curated the projects / tokens to include in the study.

Teachable (http://teachable.com) | Full-Stack Developers | New York, NY (Flatiron) | Full-Time | Onsite

Teachable is a leading teacher-focused online course platform designed for educators who want their own branded online presence. Our goal is to give online course creators the tools and resources they need to earn money from teaching. We are among the fastest growing online course platforms in the industry, with teachers expected to generate $125 MM+ in course sales on Teachable in 2017.

We are looking for Ruby/Rails generalists with broad experience across the web development stack. Candidates must have an expertise in Ruby/Rails, Angular (or similar framework) and MySQL (or Postgres). A C.S. or B.S. degree is strongly preferred.

We offer competitive salary, equity and health benefits.

Please send resume, cover letter and code samples to jonathan + HN at teachable.com

Bryce Roberts from OATV is trying to offer an alternative path via his http://indie.vc program.

The part about Homejoy needing to keep up with Handy's flood of Groupon 'deals' just further drove home how destructive Groupon has been for businesses, except Groupon, which still has a multi-billion dollar public market valuation. Groupon should really be called Pandora's Box.

AWS launched in 2006, while Google App Engine launched in 2008 and Google Compute Engine launched in 2012. But Amazon has always moved significantly faster than Google in the IaaS market, introducing the most comprehensive suite of infrastructure services and relentlessly undercutting on price. AWS has been consistently innovative while Google has long played catch-up at far too slow a pace.

What a hyperbolic post. There is no reason to put a company on blast like this. There is a real team of people likely working exceptionally hard to operate Slack. You could have just written a post extolling the benefits of Gitter, and gone about your day of adding more campers to your project. I'm guessing Slack didn't beg for your business or community endorsements.

We're a very small company (10 FTEs), but we have been anything but impressed with Zenefits as a customer. We only use them for medical and dental insurance, but in reality, they provide very little, if any value. The Zenefits software is really nothing special, and in fact, the onboarding UI is pretty poor. Now that we have our insurance, Zenefits adds zero value to us. We deal directly with United and Zenefits collects a 10% commission on our monthly premiums. Its a genius business model, and little else.

Zenefits doesn't have any intrinsic rights to ADP's system. Twitter killed off plenty of companies when it decided to shut down the 3rd party ecosystem. Facebook obviously maintains similar strategic control over it's API. How many case studies must there be for companies to understand that building on another company's platform always carries business and strategic risks?

Twitter has become the definitive source for breaking news, rumors and off the cough analysis in Sports. Scoops always appear on Twitter considerably faster than ESPN, etc. During free agency periods, all of the rumors and news breaks on Twitter first because all of the top traditional journalists and bloggers use Twitter as their primary distribution channel. If I were running ESPN, I would have tried my hardest to head this off years ago, perhaps by emulating the StockTwits strategy or something, but at this point, Twitter is the breaking source for Sports information, not ESPN. And that's why I use it multiple times per day on the web.

Weebly's traction and capital efficiency are remarkably impressive.

Facebook may be generating significant mobile revenue, but the core Facebook mobile / app strategy is suspect. Poke, Home and Paper have all been flops, and it's hard to imagine Slingshot faring any better.

Marijuana should be legal because the US is supposed to be a free country and there is no reason it should be illegal. Tax revenue is a dirty justification that only demonstrates the extreme hypocrisy. It should never be the justification for legality or illegality. The whole discussion about tax revenue allocation is nothing more than red herring. A 25% tax is nothing more than extreme government theft.

Seems like the offline equivalent of a misguided 'Growth Hack' gone wrong.

Downloading now. Based on the screenshots, this looks pretty damn solid.

Fantastic idea.

However, I'm at a complete loss when trying to understand why Intel Capital would lead or even participate in the financing of an e-commerce merchant. I can't imagine Intel Capital's investment mandate is this broad.

Goodsie (http://goodsie.com) provides modern e-commerce software for small and medium size retailers.

REMOTE: We are looking for a full-stack Python developer based anywhere in the United States, with a preference for the East Coast or Midwest (EST or CST time zone).

A strong expertise in Python/Django is required. Experience with Backbone.js or administering AWS services is preferred.

Compensation, equity and health benefits are very competitive.

Our team has a strong track record in the consumer Internet sector with experience from Vimeo, Pentagram and IAC.

Please send an email with a resume and Github code samples to jonathan at goodsie dot com.

The main impact will be on their gross processing volume, which is in some respects a vanity metric because of their pricing model. Revenue will be impacted, but as your example illustrates, not directly or proportionately.

According to Aaron Greenspan in his recent lawsuit "a vast sum, if not the majority, of Dwolla’s transaction volume is the result of Bitcoin speculation."

So it should be interesting to see what impact this has on Dwolla's business.

You should contact David Marcus, Paypal's relatively new CEO. At least one other HN thread shows his willingness to help: http://ndy.gd/JJgB

Fantastic list! Thanks for putting this together. Very helpful.

Twitter had their chance. They offered roughly 50% less than Facebook, and without a liquid currency to boot. Apparently, they weren't even in the ballpark. It wasn't Instagram's responsibility to negotiate with Twitter given the relative disparity between the offers. If they chose not to take Facebook's offer, and hold out for Twitter to increase their offer by 100%, again, without it even being a liquid offer, they would have run the risk of Facebook walking away and being completely at the mercy of Twitter.

Also, Facebook's stock included a liquid stock component, whereas Twitter's offer didn't offer any short-term liquidity for shareholders.

Meetup.com and as a result the New York Tech Meetup are egregious offenders of not providing 1-click unsubscribe. They take it another step further and make it extremely difficult to unsubscribe on the website too.

If Twitter was prepared to make a higher offer, why didn't they? There was nothing stopping them from making a pre-emptive offer. It's not Instagram's responsibility to beg for a higher offer from Twitter, especially with a higher, time-sensitive offer on the table from Facebook.

Nick Bilton is among the most respected journalists, but he's written some really questionable articles lately.

This is pretty incredible. Really clever. Any plans for iCal integration?

What were some of their 'interesting' ideas? Are you familiar with Slide's history as a start-up? Nothing but hype. Always jumping from one bandwagon (widgets and ad networks) to the next using every anti-consumer trick in the book to generate traffic. No authenticity to any of their pursuits, just a means to sell 'users' to advertisers. Talent acquisitions don't go for $200MM.